Four Testaments (eBook)

Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita: Sacred Scriptures of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism

Brian Arthur Brown (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
496 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-6578-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Four Testaments brings together four foundational texts from world religionsthe Tao Te Ching, Dhammapada, Analects of Confucius, and Bhagavad Gitainviting readers to experience them in full, to explore possible points of connection and divergence, and to better understand people who practice these traditions. Following Brian Arthur Brown's award-winning Three Testaments: Torah, Gospel, Quran, this volume of Four Testaments features essays by esteemed scholars to introduce readers to each tradition and text, as well as commentary on unexpected ways the ancient Zoroastrian tradition might connect Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism, as well as the Abrahamic faiths. Four Testaments aims to foster deeper religious understanding in our interconnected and contentious world.

Autor

Brian Arthur Brown is an independent scholar and a United Church of Canada minister. He is the author or editor of several books, including the award-winning Three Testaments: Torah, Gospel, Quran and Noah’s Other Son.

Inhalt

ContentsForeword by Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Director of the Harvard Center for Study of World Religions IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Four Fingers and a Thumb - Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Gita, and Avesta Book One From the Foundations of the Earth to Our Common Spiritual AncestorsIntroduction: East and West Meeting at the Altar of Religion by Cyril GlasséExordium: What We Once Knew, by Karl Friedrich GeldnerPreface: Why the Z Factor MattersThrough the Mists of Time: Vedic and Semitic Prehistories Connecting East and WestA Priest Becomes a Prophet: Commissioned at the RiverA Chance Meeting at the Crossroads of History: A Prelude to the Babylonian Interface between Proto Vedic and Proto Semitic ReligionsThe Silk Route: The Axis of the Axial AgeThe Extant Avesta: A Few Pieces of the Jigsaw PuzzleThe Fraternal Twins of World Religion: Monism for MonotheistsBook TwoThe Taoist TestamentIntroduction: Magi in China and Intellectual Ferment in Eurasia at the Middle of the First MillenniumBCE by Professor Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chinese, Philadelphia UniversityPreface: Magic and iMaginationTao Te Ching: translated by Victor H. MairBook ThreeThe Confucian TestamentIntroduction: Innovation vs.Tradition by Jacqueline Mates-Muchin, Senior Rabbi, Temple Sinai, OaklandPreface: Fireworks East and WestThe Analects: translated by James LeggeBook FourThe Buddhist TestamentIntroduction: The Indian Origins of Buddhism by Professor Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Oxford Preface: King Akbar’s Perfect ReligionDhammapada: translated by S. RadhakrishnanBook FiveThe Hindu TestamentIntroduction: Reciprocal Illumination by Professor Arvind Sharma, Birks Professor in Comparative Religion, McGill UniversityPreface: With Notes from Mahatma Mohandas GandhiBhagavad Gita: translated by GandhiBook SixThe Z FactorIntroduction: Eastern Influence in Western Texts by Dr. David BrucePreface: New Frontiers in Scriptural StudiesIsrael in Exile: God as Israel’s Only RedeemerUp from the River Again, With a Promise of Paradise: Jesus as a Zoroastrian Saoshyant, the Redeemer of the WorldChinvat Bridge – The Final Judgement: Zoroastrian Scriptures and “Previous Revelations” Corrected in the QuranBook SevenThe Dead Zee ScrollsIntroduction: Digging Through Time by Professor Richard FreundPreface: A Model for the Twenty First CenturyAmong the Ruins: Tablets and Cylinders From Aurel Stein to Mary Boyce and Beyond: Controversies in the Twentieth CenturyEpilogue: The Resurrection of Zoroaster: A Prophet for the Twenty First CenturyDancing on the Edge of Tombs: More Treasure Than Anyone ImaginedAppendix: Images of the Original Eastern TestamentsPreface to Images: The Edict of Cyrus and the Chinese Cuneiform Bones by E. K. EduljeeBibliographyIndexAbout the EditorAbout the Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.7.2016
• Co-Autor: David Bruce, K. E. Eduljee, Richard Freund, Cyril Glasse, Victor H. Mair, Jacqueline Mates-Muchin, Arvind Sharma
• Vorwort: SJ Francis X. Clooney
• Zusatzinfo: 15 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations; - 1 Color Illustrations; - 11 Halftones, Color including Color Photographs; - 1 Tables; - 1 Text Boxes.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Schlagworte: Analects • Bhagavad Gita • Dhammapada • Tao Te Ching
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-6578-7 / 1442265787
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-6578-3 / 9781442265783